Sentence examples for intensive pastures from inspiring English sources

Similarly, patch size was smallest for moderate pastures followed by intensive pastures and non-grazed exclosures for both years.

However, while patch size in both moderate and intensive pastures was similar across years respectively, patch size in non-grazed exclosures increased over time.

The whole data set included species lists from the three main landscape units and from a range of land use types from unmanaged forests and grasslands to intensive pastures and annual crops.

To date, the network has resulted in a considerable reduction in the uncertainties about the effects of elevated CO2 on growth, and to a lesser extent composition and forage quality, of intensive pastures in cool, wet climatic zones.

The WaterWorld Policy Support System (www.policysupport.org/waterworld) is used with a range of spatial data sets to understand the areas of Africa subject to recent land degradation (as observed from satellite time series) and the spatial congruence of these areas with intensive croplands, intensive pastures, and deforestation.

An additional risk-management strategy under a monthly contract is an increase in the area used as intensive pasture to ensure fodder availability in years with unfavorable weather.

What matters most is intensive pasture, a land cover that could be associated with a number of stressors on salmonid fry (e.g. pesticides, fine sediment) and which allows us to identify a series of risky field locations, where this land cover is readily connected to the river system by overland flow.

It is marked by a regression of forest cover due to agricultural extension, intensive pasture, and deforestation.

It is also likely that there will be a shift to more intensive pasture systems.

In New Zealand, pastoral agriculture is the dominant land use and recent research has shown that soils under intensive dairy pastures have lost large amounts of carbon (∼1000 kg C ha−1 y−1) during the past few decades.

From the north and the east the Forest is surrounded by arable lands (68.5 % of area) with fertile soils and intensive farming, pastures and meadows (12.8 %) and woodlands (16.4 %).